Daylight Savings Time problem

I live in Saskatchewan (SK), a province in Canada that does not observe daylight savings time (we stay on central standard time year round). My iPhone calendar is set to a city in our province (Regina). Looking at next week's calendar entries, they are all pushed back an hour, like the iPhone is automatically compensating for the end of daylight savings this weekend. The only problem is, we don't change our clocks in SK since we don't observe DST, so all my appointments are out an hour.

I hope someone can shed some light on this so I don't have to go into my calendar and manually reset all the times.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), iPhone 4

Posted on Nov 5, 2010 11:06 AM

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Nov 6, 2010 5:35 AM in response to derrickk

I have a similar problem in that was the time went back an hour last weekend all my future reoccurring appointments changed by 1 hour earlier than when set up. This is crazy as only the clock should change and have no impact on appointments in the calendar. If anyone knows how to correct this without having to change every reoccurrring appointment please let me know.

Nov 8, 2010 7:20 AM in response to nashikens

Thanks for that tip, I didn't think to check that. Everything was set correctly there. This morning the time and Outlook calendar entries are back to normal--not sure what happened there--but the original problem of my iCal entries being out an hour still exists. Now it doesn't seem to matter if Time Zone Support is on or off, iCal entries are wrong. The positive there is the phone is recognizing that correctly. Looks like I might have to manually correct my iCal entries and hope this doesn't happen every time daylight savings starts or ends.

Nov 8, 2010 8:28 AM in response to derrickk

I have a similar problem. I entered several calendar items on my iMac today and then sync'ed with MobileMe. When I turn on the calendar on my iPhone 4, all of the times are show as one hour earlier than they were set on my iMac. This may be related to the DST problem, but why is there a problem now when there is no DST changes between entering a calendar event on an iMac and viewing the calendar event on the iPhone.

If I enter a calendar iitem on my iPhone it shows up on my iMac an hour later that what was entered on the iPhone. Looks like there is a more serious bug in the iPhone 4 than just DST changeover.

It would be nice if someone from Apple would respond to this.

Nov 8, 2010 9:19 AM in response to tenmodelt

I'm pretty sure this is a setting not a flaw (though it could be different in someone else's case).
I had this problem when I first got an iPhone.
Did you check both places to set the time zone? If I remember right, I had to have the time zone support "on" in the Calendar (iPhone) settings to have my iCal sync correctly. Maybe check that and see if it straightens things out.

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Nov 8, 2010 1:29 PM in response to nashikens

The timezone is set properly in both places, and before I encountered this problem I always had Time Zone Support turned on (it's still on now).

I went and manually changed all the iCal times so they are correct (good thing many were repeating entries). But, there is still a problem with DST. In the spring when DST starts again, those calendar entries are an hour early (an 8:00 appointment is listed as 7:00). As SimonStevens stated in his Nov 6 post, the time on the clock should change (although not in my location), not the time of the appointment. My 8:00 meeting is still an 8:00 meeting regardless if we're in DST or not.

Nov 9, 2010 6:00 AM in response to tenmodelt

I see DST problems also (USA, EST) - all appointments (recurring or not) entered prior to the changeover now show as an hour late. Luckily there weren't too many to correct.

My settings were "Set automatically" / if I turn off "Set automatically", it shows time zone as New York (correct).

Also I am using Mobile Me, which has a host of other quality problems such as 100% CPU on the PC, so I'm not surprised if this is a Mobile Me DST bug.

Nov 9, 2010 6:14 AM in response to derrickk

Not sure if this will shed any light on the discussion, but my phone is having issues with DST, too. Since "falling back" on Sunday, my Alarm feature (under "clock") has been exactly one hour late. I set my alarm to help me get the kids to school on time (two different schools with two different start times) and pick them up on time. So four different alarms each day, and they are all an hour late. The weird thing is that the time on the phone is correct. Also, I have had this phone since July of 2009 and this is the first problem I've had with the time change. That makes me think it is an issue with the current version of the software. I tried syncing it to see if they have released a fix but there isn't a new version of the software available.

Nov 11, 2010 2:11 PM in response to derrickk

So I have encountered this problem as well, and after addressing at the Apple "Genius" Bar, for an hour, to no avail, I have found out sort of a solution.

It seems that some of the "events" in my Calendar were scheduled under "Atlantic Time" (AST) instead of Eastern Standard Time (EST). Atlantic Time does not use Daylight Savings Time, and since the main Calendar was setup at Eastern Standard Time (EST) it knocked my appointments from now till we Spring Forward, out of wack by an hour.

So the, disappointing fix, it is a little better than re-entering all the events.

If you select the event, and press (apple I), you will get an info dialogue box. In this box, go to the "time zone" drop down menu, and make sure that the "event time zone" is the same as your "iCal's time zone." ICal will ask you if you want to change this repeating event, select "all future events."

So by fixing the first week, all following weeks should be in line.

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